Ida Railway Hut | Oteake Conservation Park

The original 1934 hut had a major addition when the old Ida Valley railway station building was dragged on a trailer over Buster Pass in 1976 by two bulldozers, not without some issues.

The earlier hut has been lined and has a concrete floor. The railway addition has high-pitched ceilings, a timber floor, a Shacklock 501 oven that is connected to a small hot water cylinder, although no longer to the water supply pipe, a small stainless steel bench, and 12 bunks of differing lengths.

The best hut in the park is an iconic Central Otago hut that lives up to the advertising.

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category . . . standard hut

hut fee . . . 1 hut ticket or backcountry hut pass, free to camp

elevation . . . 1350 m

bunks . . . 12 mattresses of different lengths on bunks in single bunkroom

built . . . 1934 original hut, 1976 railway station addition

heating . . . woodburner

water . . . 25 m to creek

toilet . . . longdrop

facilities . . . picnic table

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